Bird Attacks
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Changed up my 'around town' route the other day and got to the top of a steepish short hill and 'BAMSHIZZAM' one of the buggers went all kamikaze on me. It cleverly came in hard from the side and pecked me just behind the ear below the helmet - drew blood! Ok so it wasnt anything to cry about but still.
On my NORMAL route there is one maggie and he is cool. We have a good understanding now. When he isn't off chasing food he waits for me on the power lines. He knows when I am coming waits for me to go by and then swoops but only in a 'look out! look out! I'm gonna get ya fella rarrrrr' kind of way. He is cool. Never really has a dip.
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A guy I play footy with at lunch for work, showed up with a bleeding ear. Apparently there are 1 or 2 birds that nest at the top of a building in the Sydney CBD and attack pedestrians during spring. The birds are black and white but not magpies. Can't remember their name. The council said they pose no threat so they won't remove them. No threat till someone runs out into traffic and gets run over that is.
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I think there could be a movie plot in this. Birds attacking humans. But instead of a guy on a bike I think I would cast a beautiful blonde in a sportscar. What do you think?
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It's a bloody ripper! Reckon we could write Warrick Kapper into the script? He is available too. I think he just recently finished filming his home made porno...
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We had a real nasty mongrel magpie where I live, it would appear out of nowhere, as silent as Port Adelaide fans and it usually drew blood. It swooped on a very popular cycling route, which a mate and I used nearly everyday. So one day my mate says " I'm gonna take the back streets to get away from it", but I says " Nah, I'll go staight through", funny thing decides to follow him down the back streets, peck his ear and leaves me alone.....I nearly fell off my bike laughing when we met up a few blocks down the road.
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In the upper midwest we just have the red wing blackbirds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-winged_Blackbird. They're annoying but aren't as bad as the magpies sound. I ducked under a swoop last season and banged my helmet off my stem gashing the bridge of my nose. Nothing like coming home from a ride with a bloody face.
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I had one hit me last spring. I was commuting into school and looking down at the road. This I felt something large thump into my shoulder. Several feathers erupted into my sight, and I quickly turned to see a bird doing a barrel roll. I don't think it was malicious. The bird was probably going after breakfast and didn't see me.
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I almost got hit by a deer once. Was riding home from work and decided to follow some train tracks that went through a small wooded area, didn't think there were any deer in there. It jumped out and nearly hit me as it ran across the tracks. My guess is it would've hurt a lot more than a bird.
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YOU HAVE DEER THAT SWOOP????
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Never had a problem with birds cycling but a harrier came after me like, maybe 25 times while I was hiking one day. Must have been too close to his nest. Or, rather, the nest was too close to the trail. We both survived the encounter.
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Left for my ride at 3am on Monday back by 7am, no Magpies swoops whoohoo. Did see a few on my way back, but they didnt attack.
It does get wild here, we have some of the deadliest creatures on the planet. SYdney is not a good place to live when you are terrified by Spiders.(or magpies lol)
Edit: Just jinxed myself, as soon as I posted this, I walked out to get a drink and see a dirty great big huntsman spider on the wall, not deadly, but big scary mofo's nonetheless.
It does get wild here, we have some of the deadliest creatures on the planet. SYdney is not a good place to live when you are terrified by Spiders.(or magpies lol)
Edit: Just jinxed myself, as soon as I posted this, I walked out to get a drink and see a dirty great big huntsman spider on the wall, not deadly, but big scary mofo's nonetheless.
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In the big cities, and amusement and theme parks, they control the bird population by placing spikes on the building ledges. Those spikes are like 4 inches long. They're not necessarily a heavy gauge but plentiful like porcupine needles. Wouldn't that be an interesting helmet?